On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 7:18:04 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> did Einstein, or anyone, ever prove what I will call the General >> Principle of Relativity, namely that the laws of physics are invariant for >> accelerating frames? If the answer is affirmative, is there a >> transformation equation for Maxwell's Equations which leaves them unchanged >> for arbitrary accelerating frames? * > > > Mathematicians prove things Physicists don't, they find theories that are > less wrong than previous ideas, but Maxwell's original equations already > did what you ask for, >
*I don't think so. ME's are invariant under the LT. AFAIK, this applies to inertial frames, not accelerating frames, which is what I was asking about. AG* > they enabled you to calculate the speed of light and they indicated the > speed was the same for any reference frame. In fact this was the reason > Einstein suspected Newtonian physics didn't tell the entire story and is > why he started working on Relativity in the first place. Maxwell needs > modification to be consistent with Quantum Mechanics but with Special or > General Relativity no change is required. > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
